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CLIFFORD VAN ALLEN, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-RECORD-STATEMENT BLANK.

Spccicaton of Letten Patent.

Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

Application led December 11, 1917. Serial No. 206,717.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLIFFORD VAN ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and StateofhPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Car-Record-StatementBlank, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car record blanks, in which 1000classifications appear on one sheet in front of the operator: and theobjects of my inprovement are, i'irst, to provide a statement for anycertain period, showing all car movements for that period in anyrailroad yard, and second, that such information shall be in100G-classification form on each sheet complete.

I attain these objects by a statement illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of a statement sheetpartly broken away containing 1000 blocks or sections, arranged acrossthe statement and 20 from top to bottom. The sheet is divided intosections by intersecting vertical and transverse rulings. Fig. 2illustrates an enlarged view of one of the sections. The sections arenumbered 000 beginning at the upper left hand corner, as shown at A,thence progressing from left to right in each horizontal section fromthe top to the bottom of the sheet, to 999 in the lower right handcorner, shown at B in the drawing. Car records to be entered in themanner shown in section numbered 001, shown at C: foreexample, AlPRRelwould indicate: rst hour of day, movement No. 1, and car P.R.R. No.446001.

A 1 P. R. R. 466 in section 001 is similar in some respects to any othercar record entry. There are 26 letters in the alphabet and 24. hours inthe day, therefore hours can be symbolized by letters, with two lettersto spare. All movements possible or contemplated in or through, a yardshould be listed and numbered, and using an integral number it can benicely sandwiched between the letter representing the hour and theletter or letters representing the car initial. It is only necessary toshow the figures of a car number, in its proper section, which are notl'shown in that section, as the number of the section calls for theremaining three figures. In case a car number would have only three orless number of figures, those figures should be shown in the propersection bearing that number, and the figures underscored or encircled toshow that they are the same as the number of the section.

It would be necessary to use only one sheet at a time in any one yard,as more than one person can work on a sheet, whereas a book record canonly be done very slowly by one operator entering, and several bookshave to be kept going at the same time to keep up with the work. yAtmost big yards the yard people would keep two or more sheets going atsame time according to the direction of the traffic, as it would beliable to jumble the bills, etc., to have the operator enter say,westbound and eastbound at same time, for when an eastbound bill getsinto the westbound pile it becomes lost for a time, perhaps foreternity.

I claim:

A car record comprising a sheet divided by transverse and verticalintersecting lines into one thousand sections arranged in fifty verticalcolumns and each column containing twenty sections, the sections ibeingnumbered consecutively from 000 to 999, the lowest number appearing inthe uppermost section of the left hand column, the numbers increasing byone in each section reading from left to right progressively in eachtransverse row of sections from the top to the bottom of the sheet, thesheet being further provided with a blank column midway its length onwhich the sheet is'adapted to be folded.

CLIFFORD VAN ALLEN.

